The Engagement

We went to a party yesterday.  My youngest sister in law but one is all grown up.  When I met her, she was a young teenager, an earnest student always to be found with her head in a text book.  She is smart and beautiful and yesterday she got engaged.

We arrived way too early - not because we were incredibly organized because that.just.does.not.happen.(ask my mum) but because her fiance and his family were late.  Isn`t that meant to happen on a different date?  So there was lots of waiting around...

Why is it that girls wait patiently grasping lacy adornments to their dress...

Zaki`s cousin Salma

while boys my boy investigates snails and no doubt puppy dog`s tails (to be found later in pockets while doing the laundry)...

My sister in law`s fiance forgot his suit and so had to drive back home from the hotel in which they were staying to retrieve it - a round journey of a couple of hours, and couldn`t find the engagement ring (isn`t it the bestman`s job to lose it on a different day?)  But all was well in the end.  There was laughter and lots of happiness for Rokia and her beau.

We dressed in our traditional Moroccan finery and some of us closed our eyes (tsk)

ate pigeon pie known as b`stilla  - chicken often substitutes for the pigeon, which is mixed with almonds, egg and icing sugar and is covered in a filo-like pastry. I have a feeling that the one we ate was authentic.  Poor `pidg`. Zaki was hugely disappointed as he thought this was dessert - in his dreams a concoction of chocolate and cream.

followed by....meat complete with odd little cheese and olives on sticks! 

Over the meat, that`s my brother in law and his very pretty wife

The wedding will probably be in the spring when there will be music and dancing, food and 7 dress changes for the bride.  Yes, 7!

Congratulations Rokia and Youssef!

I haven`t anything to show you sewingwise. I`ve slightly fallen off the hamster wheel what with going away for a couple of days and then being sick with this horrible flu virus which came and went and came back with migraine headache vengeance.  I feel fine now and will post something beautiful very soon.  There`s been a fabric delivery.  Would you like a clue?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me? 

Any guesses?